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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Indonesia’s KF-21 fighter jet deal cut back -- what’s next?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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[Grace Kao, Meera Choi] Has money displaced romance on dates?
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Will China's self-sufficient dream in HBM come true?
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Man stabs woman and her son amid financial dispute, killing 1
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Tunisia sends former Libyan P.M. home
TUNIS (AP) ― Tunisia extradited Libya’s former prime minister to his country on Sunday, despite concerns by Tunisia’s president and human rights groups that he could be tortured or unfairly prosecuted there. The decision by Tunisia’s prime minister to send Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi home to face trial appeared to set up a potential clash between the president and prime minister of this North African country, the top two officials in the governing coalition. Later Sunday, Libyan Prime Minister Abdur
June 25, 2012
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Islamist leader declared president of Egypt
CAIRO (AP) ― The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader “for all Egyptians,” although he faces a struggle for power with the country’s still-dominant military rulers. The announcement by election officials touched off a joyous celebration of chanting and dancing in the sweltering heat by tens of thousands of Morsi’s supporters jamming Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that topp
June 25, 2012
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Bolivian police deny deal, recommit to ‘mutiny’
LA PAZ (AFP) ― Police in Bolivia vowed Sunday to press on with a four day old mutiny, spurning a pay deal struck by the government and union leaders, as President Evo Morales accused the opposition of plotting a coup.Since Thursday, low-ranking officers in this impoverished Latin American country have rioted to demand an increase in salary. Authorities, meanwhile, accuse them of stockpiling weapons and pressuring other units to turn over their arms in an attempt to overthrow the leftist governme
June 25, 2012
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Paraguay’s ousted president goes on offensive
ASUNCION (AP) ― Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo fought back Sunday against the politicians who engineered his dismissal, setting up an alternative government and pledging to upstage Paraguay’s new leaders at an upcoming regional summit. Lugo’s new stance marked a dramatic about-face from just two days earlier when it seemed he would go meekly into retirement after the country’s Congress overwhelmingly voted to impeach him. Since then, Lugo has received a flood of support from South Ame
June 25, 2012
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Sex offender given longer term
A seven-year sentence given to a sex offender has been lengthened to ten years after a year-long struggle on the part of the female victim.Josie Ottoway, 21, was raped nearby her student dormitory in February 2011 by a hooded stranger at gunpoint. The Loughborough University undergraduate studying international business was reportedly on her way back to her room from a friend’s house, which was ten minutes away.The attacker ordered her to take off her clothes before he sexually assaulted her.“On
June 25, 2012
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Eating placenta, an age-old practice in China
SHANGHAI (AFP) - After Wang Lan delivered, she brought home a baby girl and her placenta, which she plans to eat in a soup -- adopting an age-old practice in Chinese traditional medicine.The health-giving qualities of placenta are currently creating a buzz in Western countries, where some believe it can help ward off postnatal depression, improve breast milk supply and boost energy levels.But placentophagy -- the practice of eating one‘s placenta after birth -- is relatively common in China, whe
June 25, 2012
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Woman upset over corpse on flight
A Swedish woman says she had to fly overnight from Europe to Tanzania next to a man who died after the plane had departed.Lena Pettersson, a reporter for Sveriges Radio, said the man was having convulsions before the Kenya Airways flight departed from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The plane took off anyway, The Local.se reported Sunday.He died several hours later while the plane was in the air.Pette
June 25, 2012
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Tortoise returned home after week away
A tortoise who went missing from his suburban Chicago home last week was found hanging out in a empty pool in St. Charles, Ill.The Chicago Tribune said the 44-year-old tortoise, who is named Lance, wandered Sunday from home in Lombard during a barbecue and was picked-up by a man who thought it was a wild animal and took it home to nearby St. Charles.Lance spent five days in an empty pool, cared for by the man’s 10-year-old daughter. A neighbor of the girl contacted Lance’s owners, Andy and Susan
June 25, 2012
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Two Iranians sentenced to death for drinking alcohol
Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for drinking alcohol, the head of the judiciary in the north-eastern province of Khorassan Razavin said on Sunday."Two people who have for the third time been convicted of consuming alcoholic drinks have been sentenced to death," ISNA news agency quoted Hassan Shariati as saying. "The death sentence will be effected as soon as it is confirmed by the Supreme Court."Murder, rape, armed robbery and trafficking of drugs in quantities in excess of five kilogr
June 25, 2012
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Islamist Morsi named Egypt's president
Islamist Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner Sunday in Egypt's first free presidential election in history, closing the tumultuous first phase of a democratic transition and opening a new struggle with the still-dominant military rulers who recently stripped the presidency of most of its powers.In Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that ousted autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, joyo
June 25, 2012
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Greek PM cannot attend EU summit due to surgery
ATHENS (AP) -- Greece's new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will not be well enough to travel to a critical European Union summit in Brussels after undergoing an eye operation, the government said Sunday.Samaras, 61, underwent surgery for a detached retina Saturday, just three days after being sworn in at the head of a three-party coalition government formed after two inconclusive general elections
June 24, 2012
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Rio+20 adopts sustainable development blueprint
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) ― World leaders on Friday endorsed a statement on fighting poverty and environmental woes at the close of a three-day summit.The 53-page document, titled “The Future We Want,” aims at laying the groundwork for a green economy and calls for “Sustainable Development Goals” to replace the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals from 2015. It voices dismay that more than a billion people live in extreme poverty on a planet strained by ecological overload, and outlines a plan for a c
June 24, 2012
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Double leg amputee from Canada scales Kilimanjaro
MONTREAL (AFP) ― A double leg amputee has pulled himself up Africa’s highest mountain, disproving doctors who said he would never be a functioning member of society.”Spencer West, 31, lost his legs as a child after a genetic disorder ― sacral agenesis ― paralyzed the lower half of his body.But he didn’t let that stop him: the resident of the Canadian city of Toronto arrived at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, some 6,000 meters above sea level, on Tuesday, calling it an incredible personal feat.“
June 24, 2012
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Hamas threatens to escalate armed attacks on Israel
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers threatened to escalate fighting with Israel on Saturday after airstrikes killed several gunmen in the coastal territory, and Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel wounded one person and damaged an elementary school in the country’s south.The two sides periodically clash, but this flare-up was the most serious in months. It started with an attack by a little known al-Qaida-inspired Palestinian militant group but has extended to drag in Hamas.Hamas has
June 24, 2012
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Syria forms new government
BEIRUT (AP) ― Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a decree forming a new government Saturday, but it will be headed by a key loyalist and the foreign, defense and interior ministers kept their jobs.The move comes as fears mounted that the conflict was aggravating regional tensions. Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Saturday his country would take ``necessary’’ action against Syria after Syrian forces shot down a Turkish military plane.Syria’s new government is headed by Riad Farid Hijab, a fo
June 24, 2012
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Tensions soar ahead of Egypt poll result
CAIRO (AFP) ― Tensions soared in Egypt on Saturday a day before the result of a divisive presidential election and as the Muslim Brotherhood sparred with the ruling generals over what it sees as a military power grab.The electoral commission overseeing the divisive contest between Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq said it will announce the official winner on Sunday.“Faruk Sultan, the head of the presidential election commission, will announce the results
June 24, 2012
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China in first manual space docking: Xinhua
BEIJING (AFP) ― A Chinese spacecraft on Sunday successfully completed the country’s first manual docking in orbit, the official Xinhua news agency said, a milestone in an ambitious program to build a space station.The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft manually linked with the Tiangong-1 module just over a week into a manned space mission which includes China’s first female astronaut, following an automatic docking on Monday.“The first manual docking has been completed normally,” mission control announced in
June 24, 2012
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Bolivian police mutiny over pay widens
LA PAZ (AFP) ― Bolivia’s military ordered troops into the streets of major cities Saturday following a police mutiny that the government said appeared to be setting the stage for a coup attempt.Communications Minister Amanda Davila said the striking police were stockpiling weapons and pressuring other units to turn over their arms, calling it a “coup scenario.”“Press reports and intelligence reports are now saying that a coup scenario is taking shape,” she said in an interview with Erbol radio,
June 24, 2012
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Prince William set for Diana inheritance on 30th birthday
Britain's Prince William celebrates his 30th birthday on Thursday, triggering a clause in his late mother Diana's will which could see him receive a 10 million pounds inheritance.The late Princess of Wales left the bulk of her estate to sons William and Harry, who were aged 15 and 12 when she died in 1997, but the executors ruled that the inheritances should not be handed over until both turned 30
June 24, 2012
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400-pound woman arrested for nudity
Police in Florida said they arrested a 400-pound woman who was spotted sitting nude on a bench at a bus stop.Fort Lauderdale police said Patricia McCollum, 52, was spotted by officers sitting nude on the bus bench Wednesday and was arrested on a charge of exposure of sexual organs in public, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.McCollum said during a court appearance Thursday she is curr
June 24, 2012